Opening:Jan 5,2008,20:00
Exhibition Duration:Jan 5, 2008 – Mar 6, 2008
Address:TCG Nordica,xibalu 101,Kunming,Yunnan,China
Tel:0871-4114692,4114961
www.tcgnordica.com
TCG Nordica Gallery
The Finnish artist Kaarina Ormio is spending 5 months in Kunming.
artist statement:
I work with the theme ‘chinoiserie’. This historical art style from the rococo time means European eager for the Chinese based on exotic fantasies. The Finnish Chinese-translator Pertti Nieminen has said about ‘chinoiserie’: “The fairytale ‘The Nightingale’ of H.C. Andersen was as good an information as decorative pictures on English porcelain plates.”
In Kunming I sew ‘Chinese princess dresses’ that are based on my European fantasies, they are a mixture of the European and the Chinese. They are also real, wearable dresses.
I have worked with different media like performance, book, film,installation, dresses, but mostly for the same theme, where the traveling fairytale princess always appears in one way or another. She is like a western explorer and imperialist, but in a mild and a bit playful sense. I try to sew the ‘Chinese princess dresses’ on the basis of the local taste with a wish to conform with an unfamiliar culture. When conquering a country I also become conquered myself. By sewing a dress in a strange country and dressing up in it I try to get inside the strangeness.
Kaarina’s website
Kaarina’s blog in Kunming(GFWed)
Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich’s recently works from Kunming
Opening:Jan 5,2008,20:00
Exhibition Duration:Jan 5, 2008 – Mar 29, 2008
Address:TCG Nordica,xibalu 101,Kunming,Yunnan,China
Tel:0871-4114692,4114961
www.tcgnordica.com
TCG Nordica Gallery
Artist statement:I started to make my first sculpture two years after having moved back to my birth country, Cambodia, six years ago. I spend most of my childhood in the United States.
Collectively, my sculptures are forms that reflect on the theme of the boarder: between the interior and the exterior. The shapes are echoes or reflections of my experiences of someone whose life has always been in transition and feeling like there’s no permanent home. I think often about current situation in Cambodia – it’s development, and it’s difficulties.
My main materials are rattan, bamboo, and metal wire – the stuff that is common and cheap in Cambodia. My tools are simple: razorblades, knives, axes, pliers, a blowtorch.
The manual labor allows me the time to contemplate on the forms and my relationship to it. This relationship between the viewer and the form is what matters most to me, and each pieces are open to interpretations by the viewer.
about Sopheap Pich
exhibition space
There will be a dance performance on Saturday Dec 31st 8:00 pm , welcome to join! Price:10 yuan /person!
Tel;4114691 4114692
The 31st we at Nordica are celebrating New Year with a concert. In connection with this there will be an opportunity to eat. For only 65 RMB you can attend the buffet （18:30）and the concert （20:00–24:00）. Welcome to join!
Tel：4114691、4114692
The 21st and 22nd we at Nordica are celebrating Christmas with a concert. In connection with this there will be an opportunity to eat. For only 50 RMB you can attend the buffet （18:30）and the concert （20:00）by itself will cost 25 RMB.
If you wish to attend both the price is only 65RMB!
Tel：4114691、4114692
December is the darkest time of the year in Scandinavia and the greater part of winter is still ahead.The biggest festival in Scandinavia is Christmas. It‘s the time when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The season of Christmas begins on the first Sunday of Advent, when the first candle in the Advent candlestick is lit. On each subsequent Sunday another candle is lit, so that on the last Sunday before Christmas, all four candles are burning. Advent is the time of waiting and preparing for Christmas.
We spend Christmas Eve with family. Together we eat a big dinner, sing carols and play games. As a symbol of the three wise men’s gifts to the baby Jesus, we also have a tradition of giving each other gifts on Christmas Eve. Often these gifts are handed out by Santa Claus, who comes to visit in the evening.
